Rio Platano Biosphere Expedition
Paradise in Peril
So I realize I dropped off the Rio Platano blog halfway through the story – bad form. But good news – after many a long night of editing, a very helpful test screening in San Francisco, and a fabulous premiere … Continue reading
It began with a good old fashioned MUD SLOG
And I’m not talking the “darn, my pants got dirty” kind. I’m talking the knee-deep, hard-sucking, boot-devouring yellow clay in a torrential downpour down inclines a mountain goat would blink twice at kind. For 9 hours. “Two steps forward, one … Continue reading
Scorched, Scraped, Bug-eaten;
mud-covered, drenched, ragged, thin, cut-up and smelly. It’s been two weeks of smashing through whitewater rapids, slogging through knee-deep mud and hacking through thickets of razorgrass and swarms of malarial mosquitos, bullet ants, and thorn-covered vines. The rainforest, as you … Continue reading
Photos, Pico Bonito
The rain is coming in droves — it fell all night, and then most of the day, or at least any time I pulled out a camera. But, I managed to navigate the Spanish knockoff version of photoshop well enough … Continue reading
Pico Bonito
Lodged up at Pico Bonito, which is paradise on earth, plain and simple. Wooden lodges nestled in a verdant forest of palms and flowers — swimming pool, tropical rum and fruit drinks served in a coconut, and rare birds right … Continue reading
Into the Jungle
In Nepal, I dealt with some pretty intense challenges. Filming at 5400 meters on an icy glacier – leaping into a glacial lake – scrambling through icy boulder fields and sleeping in caves, dizzy with altitude. In two hours, I’m … Continue reading
About Daniel Byers
Daniel Byers is an expedition photographer and filmmaker, as well as an experienced climber, mountaineer, and diver. He has worked for National Geographic, the BBC, and USAID, crossing many of the world's extreme landscapes in an effort to tell stories that need to be told.